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Presumably, this is an attempt by the Occupy movement to further ingratiate itself with The Episcopal Church.<\/p>\nPresumably, this is an attempt by the Occupy movement to further ingratiate itself with The Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n
Oddly enough, even though any minute I\u2019m expecting to read a statement from an Occupy admiring bishop explaining how this furthers the church\u2019s mission in some obscure way, it hasn\u2019t worked.<\/p>\n
The Occupiers have been asked to leave within two weeks. This gives them plenty of time to come up with new mischief with which to tax the limits of the gracious pastoral response <\/em>that benighted clerics feel compelled to extend to anyone muttering the incantation \u201cpoor and marginalised\u201d.<\/p>\n The Occupiers also stole part of a baptismal font; still, what more could they do in two weeks?<\/p>\n Arson.<\/p>\n From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n There\u2019s no longer room at the inn at a Manhattan church that\u2019s sheltering Occupy Wall Streeters after a holy vessel disappeared from the altar last week.<\/p>\n When the Rev. Bob Brashear prepared for Sunday services at West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street, he noticed parts of the bronze baptismal font were gone.<\/p>\n In a fire-and-brimstone message to occupiers later that day, he thundered, \u201cIt was like pissing on the 99 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n In Brooklyn, at another church housing OWS protesters, an occupier urinated on a cross, according to Rabbi Chaim Gruber, who has angrily abandoned the OWS movement.<\/p>\n In a letter last week to OWS obtained by The Post, the rabbi fumed, \u201cThe Park Slope church housing occupiers was desecrated when an occupier peed inside the building and the pee came into contact with a cross.\u201d<\/p>\n The pastor of the church did not return calls.<\/p>\n At West Park, Rev. Brashear walked into the church for a morning service to find the 18-inch-diameter bronze basin and lid missing from the baptismal font\u2019s 800-pound base. Holy water \u2014 straight from the River Jordan \u2014 had been poured from the missing basin insert into the base\u2019s bowl.<\/p>\n [\u2026.]<\/p>\n The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Presumably, this is an attempt by the Occupy movement to further ingratiate itself with The Episcopal Church. Oddly enough, even though any minute I\u2019m expecting to read a statement from an Occupy admiring bishop explaining how this furthers the church\u2019s … Continue reading